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THE DAILY JOURNAL WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1597. V* eshington Office—i£o3 Pennsylvania Avenue Telephone foil*. Business Office 238 1 Editorial Rooms... A 86 TERMS OK SI BSCIiIPTION. _ DAILY BY MAIL. Bally only, one month . •7® Daily only, three month* 2.00 Dolly only, one year S-0o Daily, including Sunday, one year 10.00 Sunday only, one year 2.00 WHEN FURNISHED BY AGENTS. Daily, per week, by carrier c * B Sunday, single copy acts Daily and Sunday, per week, by carrier 20 cts . WEEKLY. .. Retlneed Kate* to Clob*. Subscribe with any of our numerous agents or •end subscriptions to THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL., Indianapolis, Ind. Persons sending the Journal through the mails in the l nited States should put on an eight-page Paper a ONE-CENT postage 'damp; on ft twelve or sixteen-page paper a TWO-GEN i postage stamp. Foreign postage is usually double these rates. All communications intended for publication in tills paper must. In ordtr to receive attention, be accompanied by the name and address of the writer. If it is desired that rejected manuscripts be returned, postage must in ail cases be inclosed for that purpose. .srss - THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: NEW YORK—Windsor Hotel and Astor House. CHICAGO—PaImer House and P. O. News Cos., 217 Dearborn street. CINCINNATI—J. R. Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Deering. northwest corner of Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville Book Cos., 256 Fourth avenue. 6T. TjOUIS— >Union News Company, Union Depot. Washington, and. c— Riggs Hou*e, Ebimt House, Willard’s Hotel and the Washington News Exchange, Fourteenth street, between BeT.n. avenue and F street. The Taggart administration acts as if it wishes it hadn’t done it. The White-river intercepting sewer has Intercepted some things that were not down In the bills. There ought not to be any interceptor between the Board of Public Works and city contractors. There is nothing to call out Mayor Taggart’s smile in the. White-river intercepting sewer business. • I.et us have tin open and above-board administration without any side conduits or crooked interceptors. The proper place to transact municipal business is at the city offices, and the proper time is the day' time. Ppgue's run is a filthy little stream, but it is not improved by being made a catchall for Democratic votes. The transaction of public business at midnight behind locked doors does not commend itself to honest citizens. The cause of education trembles in the balance while the question of football or no football at De Pauw remains unsettled. To Spain's offer of home rule to Cuba, the insurgents may reply: “Better establish good government at home before you offer it to us.” The head of a business administration would not make private appointments and hold night conferences regarding official business. Week before last the Taggart smile looked ■helf-worn. Last week it was badly frayed around the edges, and this week it has a very tired look. Considerable curiosity is expressed among taxpaying citizens as to what was the method of division of that $5,000 which figured so curiously in the sewer deal.

Has the Taggart administration had a midnight meeting yet to consider whether or not it w r ould be advisable to enforce the saloon law and so prevent Sunday murders? The last steamer which arrived at Havana from Spain brought Captain General Weyler $2,000,000, which it is officially asserted is to be applied to military expenses. WeyJer’s official word is as bad as his bond. The general impression in Spain is that the new Cabinet does not represent the best element of the Liberal party. The strongest men in the party seem to have hesitated to grapple with so serious a situation. There are different kinds of manholes in sewers. The kind best known is the hole by whic h a man descends into a sewer to make repairs. The other kind is the hole a man gets into when he undertakes dirty work on his own account. There is not a civil engineer, contractor, practical business man or experienced dirthauler who will not say that the SIO,OOO now being expended in the so-called improvement of Pogue's run will be thrown away, so far as any permanent good is concerned. General * Gomez, commander-in-chlef of the Cuban army, writes: "Weyler's successor in Cuba, in order to cope with the rebellion at its present stage, will be obliged to demand 200,000 troops and and even then he will fail as ignominiously as ■Weyler has failed.” There is not much compromise in that. The latest proposition in New Jersey regarding Mr. Cleveland is that he be appointed lay judge of the Court of Errors and Appeals. The position is not lucrative, being worth only SSO a year, but is considered highly honorable. Asa lay judge is a judge who is not a lawyer, Mr. Cleveland may not feel complimented by the movement. The drift of events foreshadows almost to a certainty the annexation of Hawaii. There is scarcely a doubt that Congress wlii take definite action in the matter early in the next session, and that within a few months Hawaii will become an Integral part of the United States. The Journal believes it will be a popular act, and that, more than any event of recent years, it will advertise to the world the beneficent influence and expansive power of republican government. Whitecappers are no credit to a community, but when they direct their ministrations to wifebeaters, as they have done up In Decatur, the public will look upon them with a degree of toleration. The legal punishment of wifebeaters is a term in the Jail or workhouse, and is not only inadequate to the offense, but often punishes the wife and family as well by depriving them of the husband’s wages. A dose of his own medicine is the most salutary treatment such a man can "have. The announcement in yesterday's Journal that the State Board of Health had decided to establish a yellow fever quarantine against Louisville, Ky.. brought here a delegation of several prominent citizens of that place to investigate the matter. The announcement was based on statements by

members of- the state board which were vague, if not misleading. Their action did not contemplate a quarantine as a first step, but an inspection to ascertain if such a measure was necessary'. Unfortunately, this distinction was not made clear. It is not likely *tha.t any occasion will arise requiring quarantine against Louisville, and the delegation from that city returned perfectly satisfied with the action of the State board. the civil-service law and RULES. A good deal of noise is being made about the recent removal of some Democratic deputies by the United States marshal of this district and of two Democratic clerks by' the pension agent. It Is claimed on behalf of the persons removed that-they are victims to Republican greed for office and that their removal is a gross violation of the civ-il-service law. No doubt most of the noise originates wiih the persons who have been removed, for so far as the public is concerned it cares nothing who holds the little offices so long as public business is properly attended to. The public is interested in having, and is entitled to have, good service and prompt, polite and courteous attention from public officials of all grades, but beyond this it does not care much whether the little places are filled by Republicans or Democrats. The question of observing the civil-service law is broader. The public is concerned in the observance and enforcement of all law’, and cannot afford to wink at the violation of any. Opinions may vary as to the wisdom of the civil-service law, either in general or detail, but as to the duty of observing and enforcing the law as long as it remains on the statute books there should be no difference of opinion. The Journal believes that the law is right in principle and that the merit system, based on competitive examinations, should remain the permanent basis of our civil service, but it believes that the law' should be amended in some respects and its administration should b<> brought back to something like first principles. The law itself has got so mixed up with and overgrown by the executive rules and regulations, and the Civilservice Commission has done so much legislating on its own account that it is hard to tell where w'e stand on the subject. The law itself does not say a word about removals from office, except that no person in the classified service shall be discharged for contributing or refusing to contribute to a campaign fund. This is the only reference in the law to removals. Its object was and is to regulate appointments to office, not removals. As Judge Bradley, of Washington, said in a case before him: “Although, apparently, it has become a difficult thing to get into the civil service, yet it is just as easy to get out as it was before the enactment of the law.” Another judge said in an early decision: “Congress has left in the heads of departments all the discretionary power that was vested in them prior to the passage of the civil-service law and the promulgation of the rules relative to removals.” If the power of removal from office has been curtailed since the law was enacted it has been done by the rules and regulations established under the President and the Civil-service Commission. These are in a sense obligatory’, but they cannot add to nor detract from the law' itself. The law says: “The commissioners shall aid the President, as he may request, in preparing suitable rules for carrying this act into effect, and when said rules shall have been promulgated it shall be the duty of the officers of the United States, in the departments and offices to wh'ch any rules may relate, to aid, in all proper ways, in carrying said rules and modifications thereof into effect.” All such rules, be it observed, are for the purpose of carrying the law into effect, and the law specifies what points they shall cover. As it contains no prohibition of removals from office and does not authorize the making of any rule on that subject it is a question w’hether such rules possess legal force. It is important to keep in mind that the sole intent of the original law was to regulate appointments, not removals; the manner of getting into the civil service, not the manner of getting out. It should be remembered, also, that any President may modify, amend or revoke all the rules promulgated under the law by himself or any or all of his predecessors. He may not abrogate or change a letter of the law, but he can, by a stroke of the pen, revoke every rule that has been made under it since 1883. The law never intended to prevent the head of an office, such as United States marshal or pension agent, from removing his subordinates. If any rule or regulation does so it should be revoked.

TIIE WICKED PARTNER. Thousands of the nicest men in the world have come to helpless and endless grief through wicked partners. Indeed, the more immaculate a man may be, the surer he is to have a wicked partner, who, sooner or later, is sure to wreck his character and ruin his prospects. Mayor Thomas Taggart is already the victim of the wicked partner, or, it might be said, of numerous wicked partners. If we should believe the stories we hear from the lips of his beneficiaries there is not a whiter sou! in this world of sin and sorrow than that of Thomas T. But he is surrounded by wicked partners, not a half a dozen, a score or one hundred, but by battalions of them. There is the now inanimate Park Commission. This commission, if we take his Honor’s word for it and the w'ord of the animate Park Commission clerk, has conspired to ruin the* innocent and confiding mayor, to whom several of the members owe their existence and several more hope to do so. One would think that the men constituting that board would seek to help their benefactor to keep his soul white and his smile beatific. Not so. The wicked partner is without conscience or bowels of compassion. His Honor did not wish to sell the city his bogs at several times their value. He had the land cut out of the park, and it was so announced. But, "unbeknownst” to the mayor, these wicked partners petitioned for the appraisal of the Taggart hogs, and once more they appear to be within the park limits. Now, that the affair has become public, the Taggart halo is awry and battered. Time would fail us to tell of other sad experiences of his Honor with the wicked partner. In fact, wherever the light is turned upon the associates of the mayor there appear the wicked partners. The wicked partners have put up the Pogue run infamy and charged it to the mayor. The loudest and most sincere advocate of the lti-to-1 fad and the wicked partners of goldbugs have caused him to appear as an insincere trimmer. And now even worse pitfalls seem to be in the mayor’s w'ay, ail because of the wicked partners. Mr. Taggart lias so many wicked part-

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ners, so intent on lay.’ng individual pipe lines to the city treasury, that it will be really too bad to elect him mayor again. Therefore, defeat Is essential to deliver Mr. Taggart from the wicked partners. A HYPOTHETICAL CASE. Courts of law permit expert witnesses to be questioned on a hypothetical case and asked what their opinion would be under certain conditions. The case of the people against a business administration being on trial at the bar of public opinion the Journal w'ill state a hypothetical case. Suppose that a city, in pursuance of a general plan of public improvements, awards a contract for the construction of a sewer for, say, $100,000; suppose that after the work has been commenced the contractors find it will be a physical impossibility to construct the sewer unless the specifications are changed so as to raise the level at a certain point at least two feet; suppose they go to the city engineer, presumably a competent officer, and ask that the specifications be modified in the manner indicated, representing at the same time that it w'ould be a great favor to them: suppose the engineer refuses, point blank, to make any change whatever in the specifications: suppose that the contractors then go to a person who is believed to have special Influence with the Board of Public Works and the city engineer, and offer to pay him if he will secure the desired change in the specifications for them; suppose this person, we will call him Mr. Gobetween, agrees to undertake the work of securing the change for $5,000 and that the contract is closed on that basis; suppose that subsequently the contractors are notified that the Board of Public Word Is prepared to order the change; suppose they go before the board and are informed that upon the recommendation of the city' engineer the board has decided to order the sewer to be raised two feet and it is so ordered, and Mr. Gobetween receives $5,000 for his influence and services in having the change made; suppose the contractors go ahead and finish the sewer at a heavy loss; suppose that w'hen it is completed the city engineer refuses on some pretext to accept the work and the contractors cannot get their pay; suppose that in their desperation they threaten to bring suit against Mr. Gobetween for the recovery of the $5,000 paid him for his services in getting them into the hole; suppose Mr. Gobetween lays the mai ter before the mayor of the city and it is agreed that something must be done; suppose the mayor appoints a night conference to hear what the contractors and their attorneys have to say; suppose before matters have proceeded far the mayor sees the impropriety of transacting official business in that manner and suggests that further consideration of the subject be postponed till a regular session of the Board of Public Works; suppose the contractors make sworn affidavits to the foregoing facts and suppose that Mr. Gobetween, the city' engineer, the president of the Board of Public Works and the mayor all declare that they don’t know a thing about it. On such a state of facts, would you or would you not say under oath that it was a pretty kettle of fish?

THE RIGHT TO PROTECTION. On Friday last at the Heidelberg colliery, near Pittston. Pa., a lot of rioters, Huns, Slavs and Italians were permitted to prevent the English-speaking miners from going to work in the mines. At Spring Hill, In the same State, on the same day, a sim .ar condition of affairs prevailed. At the latter place (the wives of foreign miners, counting on immunity from resistance or arrest because of their sex, attempted to "induce” a few men at work in the mines for the support of their families to cease such efforts by surrounding the mine and starving them out. One will look in vain for any condemnation of these acts of violence in any of the papers which are devoting so much space to denouncing “government by injunction.” If their attention should be called to it they might be induced to admit that such conduct cannot be approved. They will make haste to say that if these rioters are offenders warrants should be issued for their arrest, to the end that they may be brought into court. Very good; who could make out the writs in time to prevent these desperate persons from assaulting the workers, as w r as the case in Heidelberg, and w’hat force of constables could be found to serve them? The point w’hich it seems necessary to make clear is that orderly people who are voluntary workers are entitled to adequate protection. Adequate protection prevents interference by violent mobs. That is not adequate protection, Indeed, it is no protection whatever which authorizes the arrest of a mob of a hundred men upon writs, after the peaceable victims have been driven from their work by the bludgeons and pick handles of lawless men or stricken down with their blows. Whose rights would have been interfered with if the men who committed the outrage upon peaceable workingmen in Pittston had been forbidden to enter upon the grounds of the colliery under the penalty of contempt of court? Is it possible that ignorant and vicious mobs, made up of the scum of Europe, cannot be prevented from driving other men from their work by force, w’ounding and nearly killing victims of their rage? This is a good question to put to the conscienceless demagogues who are denouncing the enjoining of mobs from interfering w’ith men at work and who still insist that the shooting by deputy sheriffs in another part of Pennsylvania was due to an injunction when it was not. AMERICAN POTTERY. The proposed establishment at Arcadia, in Hamilton county, of a pottery for the manufacture of fine tableware is a venture to be encouraged. This is an industry to which but little attention has been paid in this country, although there is no lack of clay of the best quality, and the demand for such wares is great. When potteries have been established the mistake has been made of imitating the product of foreign factories. A New Jersey concern, for instance, turns out an “American Belleek” ware, which is quite as beautiful, perhaps, as the Irish ware of the same name, but purchasers who are informed on the subject prefer the Irish product because it is not an imitation. That there is a fancy for foreign wares is very true, but it is because the foreign makers are constantly putting forth new designs and increasingly artistic decorations, and are not satisfied with even their own beaten track if it can be improved. The making of "china,” in fact, as it is conducted in England, France and Austria, is a fine art and one which it is the fashion to study. That the preference of connoisseurs for Dresden, Royal Worcester, Sevres, and all the other well-known wares Is not entirely due to the fact that they bear the brand “imported,” so talismanic with some foolish people, is shown by the popularity among discriminating buyers of the Rookwood ware made at Cincinnati. This, almost, if not entirely, alone among

American pottery, is original in design and process of making, and takes high rank among collectors solely on its own merits. A pottery such as that talked of at Arcadia must meet a demand less exclusive than that sought to be filled by the Rookwood people, but this need not prevent an effort to produce something distinctive in the commoner products. An opportunity, at least, should be given to native artists that it may be seen what they can do in the decorative line. There is no better place than Indiana in which to establish such a manufactory, beds of clay from which the finest porcelains can be made being found within the State. There is a chance to make the Arcadia trademark famous. In the case of David Wurth, who met with his death in. a saloon on South Alabama street on Sunday last, the coroner finds that the immediate cause of the man's death was the breaking of his neck from a fall caused by a chance blow from another person. It is a matter of great consequence to the person who struck the blow whether it was the immediate cause of Wurth’s death or not, but so far as the public is concerned that is a matter of no consequence. Wurth was not in any sense a good or useful citizen, and his death is no loss to the community, and the manner of his killing is of no particular consequence. The point of interest to the people of Indianapolis is that the killing, w hether accidental or otherwise, occurred in a saloon which was open on Sunday and where liquor was being sold contrary to law. There were scores of other saloons where the same thing was done on that day and has been done every Sunday for months past. Last Sunday there were hundreds of excursionists in the city, and along tow’ards train time in the evening South Illinois street was filled with a noisy crowd of people who showed the effects of drink. Although strangers they had no trouble in finding saloons with , heir side or back doors open. So far as known, a killing occurred in only one saloon on that day, but the law was no more openly violated by that saloon than it was by all the rest. For this condition of things Mayor Taggart, who has sworn to enforce the law, is responsible. A leading London paper publishes a report that a strong syndicate of British capitalists has sent the United States government, through Consul General Osborne, an offer to purchase the Union Pacific Railroad. As the government has decided to sell the road at auction it will, of course, decline to entertain a private offer, but the question arises, w’ill it permit a British syndicate to become possessor of the road under any circumstances? It certainly ought not to. Whatever may be thought of the propriety of allowing British capitalists to make ordinary business investments in this country, a great property like the Union Pacific Railroad should not be permitted to pass under foreign control. Originally constructed as a means of connecting together the West and the East, it is still a work of continental influence and in the event of war would be of great military importance. Its control should never be permitted to pass out of American hands.

The Maine lady who is being sued for breach of promise by an aggrieved Maine gentleman, who says she proposed to him and agreed to marry him, but afterwards married another man, should be a warning to other members of her sex who undertake to do the new woman act. Her experience proves that it is not safe to tamper with the affections of sensitive male beings, and that if she is rash enough to propose to a man she does not want it is the part of wisdom to use diplomacy and get him to break the engagement instead of permitting it to exist while she enters into a second one. There is a lesson in the affair also to men who are proposed to; they should not be too coy. If they mean yes they should say yes. The man in this case hesitated. He wanted time to consider, and after finally consenting insisted on postponing the marriage until a year had elapsed after the death of his first wife. By so doing he chilled the tender sentiment in the heart of the feminine wooer and she turned her attention to a more responsive man. Naturally, after it was too late, the feelings of the jilted one became more ardent and ho realized that he had lost a treasure. He cannot have her now, but a little of her wealth would serve as a balm for his wounded feelings; hence the suit. It is not a gallant proceeding, but he had enacted the passive part In the courtship, and gallantry could not rightfully be expected of him. When the enterprising lady becomes a widow she will probably proceed with more caution in her assumption of prerogatives hitherto exclusively masculine. The provincialism of the New York press Is demonstrated this time by Harper’s Weekly, which explains the small patronage of the summer hotels on the ground that the season was unfavorable, “July being w r et and August—indeed, the whole sum-mer-being abnormally cool and comfortable.” By “summer hotels” it means only those at the Atlantic coast resorts, of course, the circumstance that such hotels are numerous about the Western lakes and ether distant parts of the country probably having escaped its notice. Asa matter of fact, however, the landlords of the seashore hotels count upon the West for a large proportion of their patronage. If they missed the usual business this year the weather could not be at fault so far as this class of visitors was concerned, for not only was the summer west of the Allegheny mountains not cool and comfortable, but it was abnormally hot and uncomfortable from the first of July on through August and September. The Weekly will have to try again. I)I'|HILES IN THE AIR. Not Qualified. Watts—Got any notion of tackling golf? Potts—Me? No. I never w’as any good at learning languages. Inforinatio-i Wanted. “I see that Chicago’s streets are to be swept by a woman.” “Ah? I wonder if she w’ill use a broom or sweep them in the old way?” "What old way?” “With her skirts.” Sounded Queer. Mrs. Wickwire—Aren’t you a trifle late In getting home? Mr. Wickwire—l went to the theater. They had a nautical piece on. I have been to a good many plays of one kind and another, but this one is one you want to see to see sea scenery “Henry Wickwire! Have you been drinking?” Tlu* Facts In the Case. Rastus—'Member how Brer Jones stood up in de pulpit and sayed he was gwine to git to dc bottom ob all dis chicken liftin’ dat ben goin’ on? Eph—Sh’d say I does remember. Land! But he was pow’ful w en he mek dat talk. Rastus—Well, de police done found dat he was to de bottom ob it right sum de staht. No l ure in Sight. Kansas City Journal. Seth Low’ is a sufferer from dyspepsia, and there is nothing in New York politics at present that’s good for that complaint.

HE WILL HOT TESTIFY * LI'ETGERT IMDI'CED TO lll’l’ll VIX From telling his own story. All the Direct Evidence in, the Defense IlavliiK Rested Its Case Sooner than Was Expected. * MRS. CHARLES'S TESTIMONY ♦ ■ - RINGS FOUND IX THE VAT XOT THOSE OF THE MISSING W OMAN. Eighty Witnesses to Give Rebuttal Evidence for the State—The Sausage AlaUer Coniident of Acquittal.

CHICAGO, Oct. s.—The end of the famous Luetgert trial is nearer than was thought. The defense to-day rested its case, and there is nothing now to come but the rebuttal evidence of the state and the arguments of the attorneys—probably about two weeks in all. The state has eighty witnesses to place on the stand, but State Attorney Deneen said this afternoon that in most cases their evidence will be short and that he will get through with them in a hurry. He expects to demolish the stories offered by the witnesses for the defense that Mrs. Luetgert was seen around Kenosha and Lake Zurich, Wis., within a few days after the murder is said to have been committed, and to furnish other testimony that will in a great measure hold up the side of the prosecution. Luetgert did not go on the witness stand in his own defense to-day as expected. The big sausag;e manufacturer yielded to the advice of his attorneys, but the disappointment to him was great. He has declared for months that he must tell his story to the jury. His counsel feared to put him on the stand and he accepted the situation with a frown. Soon after court convened ex-Judge Vincent and Attorney Phalen asked permission to consult with their client privately. Judge Tuthill said they might do so and Luetgert and his lawyers retired to a private room. It was known that the matter under deliberation was whether or not Luetgert should go on the witness stand. Ex-Judge Vincent vigorously opposed the suggestion. He pointed out to Luetgert that William Charles, h;.s business partner, had told practically the story Luetgert would tell. ‘‘You cannot add to it anything that will benefit you,” said Judge Vincent. ‘‘lf you go upon the witness stand you will be subjected to a cross-examination lasting days and covering the entire period of your life. \ r ou will get confused and you will say things which will injure your case. My advice to you is to ‘‘keep mum.” Attorney Phalen was inclined to favor Luetgert’s desire to go upon tlie witness stand. He thought he might be able to explain some things more satisfactorily than other witnesses had. He also believed that the absence from the witness stand of the principal actor in the great tragedy may prejudice him in the eyes of the jury. Thus Attorney Phalen was willing to admit the logic of Judge Vincent’s position and Luetgert said he would abide by his counsel’s advice. CHANCE TO POSE AS A MARTYR. When the latvyers returned from their consultation Luetgert sat dawn with a grim smile upon his face. His countenance bore the expression of a martyr. The greatest disappointment of the trial to him was apparently the fact that he was not to be permitted to testify in his own behalf and address the jury as he had Said dozens of times he would. But he accepted the situation with as good grace as his rough nature would permit. The first witness called to-day was Henry J. Cox, of the United States Weather Bureau service. Witness Cox came with chart and data to prove that the night of May 1, 1897, was cloudy' in Chicago and vicinity. This evidence was brought out by the defense to counteract the testimony' of witnesses who had sworn that they stood across the street at 11 o'clock the night of May 1 and saw Luetgert and his wfife walking toward the factory. Mrs. Mary Charles, wife of William Charles, Luetgert’s business partner, was the next witness. Mrs. Charles said that on several occasions Mrs. Luetgert had said to her: “I am going away. My husband has failed in business and people will now point their fingers at me and say ‘she is the wife of the sausage maker w r ho failed. I cannot stand that.’ ” On May 1, the witness said, she saw Mrs. Luetgert for the last time. It w T as about 11 o’clock in the morning. Mrs. Luetgert again said she was going away and repeated that she could not stand the disgrace the failure had brought on her family. ‘Then she turned away and I never saw her again,” continued the witness. A dramatic scene followed. It has been agreed that Luetgert has offered an explanation of every' accusation of the prosecution, except the rings found in the middle vat in w'hich the body of Mrs. Luetgert is alleged to have been disintegrated. The rings found in the vat were stuck together when discovered, according to the story of Policeman Dean, who found them. Experts who examined them said the rings were glued together by human flesh. In one of these rings w'ere engraved the letters ‘‘H. L. L.,” the initials of Mrs. Louise Luetgert. The theory of the prosecution was that they had dropped from the dissolved finger of Mrs. Luetgert in the vat and had been glued together by flesh tissues. The defense put off an explanation of these rings until the last moment. It was the climax of the evidence in behalf of the sausage maker. NOT SIRS. LUETGERT’S RINGS. “Did you ever see Mrs. Luetgert wear finger rings?” asked Attorney Phalen after Mrs. Charles had finished telling about the missing woman’s threat to leave home. “I have,” replied the witness. “How many?” “She wore two.” “Were th;y gold rings?” “They* were.” “You saw them often?” “Yes, very often.” “Describe them, can you?” “Both were plain gold rings nearly equal in size—as to the width I mean. One of them I am sure, perhaps both, contained Mrs. Lueigert’s initials.” “Did you ever see this ring I now hand vou?” It was one of the rings found in the vat. People in tie court stood up and craned their necks with breathless interest while the witness examined the ring. The big courtroom was hushel as the crowd of spectators strained their ears to catch the reply of Mrs. Charles. ”No sir 1 never saw the ring before, ’ she finally answered. “It is narrower than either of those Mrs. Luetgert wore.” The other ring was handed her and the witness gazed at it for some time. “This ring is abcut the size of one of the rings she wore." said Mrs. Charles finally, “but I cannot tell—l do not think it is one of th State Attorney Deenen questioned the witness sharply. He asked her why she did not tell this story to the police or to Justice Kersten long ago. She replied that she bad told it to Luetgert’s attorneys and was not asked to tell it again. Fred Miller, a nephew of Luetgert, who had worked for the latter in the grocery department of his sausage factory, testified that he had the watch of Mrs. Luetgert. He produced it on the witness stand. The witness said that Mrs. Luetgert gave it to him to <sarry. saying she feared Luetgert would take it away from her as he scolded her about havine so much jewelry when, as a matter of fact, her watch and rings were all the jewelry she had. The state then rested its case. As the evidence in this famous trial is now practicallv all in an estimate of the relative strength of tie prosecution and the defense respectively i i; the sol o topic of disensston around the Criminal Court building. The attorneys engaged are probably the best judges of the weight of the evidence. All of them have made a close analytical study of everv bit of evidence produced on the trial. Thev are lik< ly to be biased and one or the other of the contending sides must he entirely wrong, for both are sure of winning •‘We have made out as strong a circumstantial case as it was possible to present ” said State Attorney Deneen to-night. “The evidence was connected and the story moved along in a smooth, natural groove. 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not conceive of a being made out more completely on purely circumstantial evidence. Our case will be strengthened by the rebuttal evidence yet to be heard. The identifications < f women at Kenosha, Wis.. and Lake Zurich. Wis.. will be absolutely obliterated before the end of this week. This will add another link to our strong circumstantial chain. We are fully satisfied with the situation Ido not care to enter upon a detailed discussion of the case in all its varied features, inastnuth as it is still open and we are yet to present more evidence. Os course it would not be proper for me to express an opinion relative to Luetgert’s failure to go upon the witness stand.” Ex-Judge Vincent was apparently highly pleased over the status of the case. “We have met them at every point and checked them.” sai'l he. We have impeached several vitn* >ses and they have failed to show beyond a reasonable doubt that Mrs. Luetgert is dead. In ray judgment a case has not been established under the indictment. And we are net through yet.” Luetgert is confident that lie will be acquitted. While apparently regretting that he had not had the opportunity to tell his story to the jury the big sausage maker said ho was satisfied that the jury would not convict him under the evidence presented. Luetgert was in an ugly humor during the afternoon and not inclined to talk much.

IT EXCITED THEM MUCH LOUISVILLE PEOPLE PROTEST AGAINST FEVER REGULATIONS. . Health Ofßeers Deolure They Had Xo Intention of Instituting Quarantine Proceedings. The statements by Drs. Hurty and Jameson, of the State Board of Health, that quarantine measures would be taken to prevent yellow fever reaching this State, stirred up a great deal of trouble. At Louisville the news was received with alarm and indignation. The Courier-Jour-nal of that city contained a long dispatch from this city upon the subject and by noon it became currently reported in that city that a strict quarantine was to be maintained in Indiana against Louisville. This W'ould mean great interference with business and the loss of thousands of dollars daily by the merchants of that city. The result of it all was that at 2 o’clock a special train started for Indianapolis, carrying representative men of the Falls City, who were coming here to protest against what to the people of Louisville appeared to be a great outrage. The report which reached Louisville w r as such that it was believed if the proper influence should be brought to bear upon the State Board of Health of this city the dire quarantine could be staved off. The special train was placed at the disposal of the people of Louisville by the Pennsylvania Company, and P. A. Bonebrake, superintendent of the Louisville and Indianapolis branch of the roa,d, was placed in charge of the train. The run to this city was a record-breaker. The 108 miles w'ere covered in exactly two hours, including the delay in crossing the river and four stops, one of which was of five minutes duration. THE LOUISVILLE DELEGATION. Dr. Hurty was notified of the coming of the delegation and was at the Statehouse, with President Jameson, of the State Board, and Charles E. Wilson, Governor Mount’s secretary, to meet the Louisvillians when they arrived. The delegation included the following gentlemen: George D. Todd, mayor of Louisville; Mayor Armstrong, of New Albany; I. F. Whitesides, mayor of Jeffersonville; C. C. Mengel, president Louisville Board of Trade; Harry Weissinger, Weissinger Tobacco Company; Lewis Stewart, Stewart Dry Goods Company; George C. Norton, Robinson, Norton Company; Logan C. Murray, American National Bank; W. T. Roiph, manager Dun’s agency; B. M. Creel, of the B. M. Creel Company (dry goods); Gilmer Adams, of J. B. Speed & Cos.; T. P. White, M. D., health officer; Andrew Cowan, Andrew Cowan & Cos.; George C. Gaulbert, of Peaslee, Gauibert & Cos.; T. A. Baker postmaster; W. B. Haldeman, general manager Louisville Courier-Journal; Thurston Ballar, wholesale florist; Dr. E. A. Grant; Walter Evans, member of Congress; Chas. H. Gibson, president Louisville Bridge Company; E. H. Bacon, vice president Commercial Club; Logan Whitney, Whitney Artificial Stone Company; Allen R. Carter, president Louisville Dispatch; J. J. C. Van Pelt, member Commercial Club; Aaron Cornwall, director Board of Trade; B. G. Boyle, managing editor Evening Post; Charles H. Hagerty, district passenger agent Pennsylvania Company, and Mr. Bonebrake. It was a serious crowd of faces that marched into the Governor’s parlor, but the same faces wore joyous expressions when they came out a half hour later. It was learned at once that they had been mistaken in the intentions of the Indiana State Board of Health. It was never intended by the board to establish a quarantine such as would prevent travel into and out of the State or would prevent or interfere with commerce. All the board intends to do is to establish a system of inspection of trains coming into the State from tne South, If persons who may reasonably be regarded as suspects are found they may be quarantined. This is all. FREE FROM YELLOW FEVER. When the situation was explained the Louisville gentlemen acknowledged that they had made an unnecessary trip. Mayor Todd said that, true or not true, the report that Louisville was to be quarantined against by Indiana had gone out over the country and would do an infinite amount o£ damage to the commercial interests of the city. He urged upon the press that the situation be made plain. Dr. White said that his city was free from yellow fever and that it would be impossible for it to live there on account of the strict system of inspection. He told of two cases which had reached the city. One was taken to a hospital in the heart of the city and the other to an emergency hospital five miles out. Both died, but no persons had contracted the fever from them. He said ali trains coming into the city trom the bouth were inspected, and persons suspected of coming from infected districts who did not nave health certificates were quarantined tor'a given period and their baggage fumigated. He read a resolution adopted yesterday morning by the Mississippi Valley Medical Asssociation, now in Session at Louisville, declaring that the proposition to> quarantine against Gouisville was absurd and unnecessary. Dr. Jameson, president of tne Indiana Board of Health, informed the visitors that they need have no tears; that there had never been any intention to quarantine against them; it was only contemplated that a system of inspection similar to that emuloyed in Louisville be adopted. Dr. Hurty also stated that this was the situation. The visitors left at 8 o’clock on their special train, having two hours to spend in tne city after the meeting at the Statehouse. They were entertained by those who conferred with them during the time. Dinner was served at the Grand Hotel at 6:30 o’clock. There is a woeful discrepancy in the statements made by Drs. Jameson and Hurty before the meeting with t. e Louisville people and during that meeting. Monday night Dr. Jameson said: “We shall take that matter up in the morning, and I presume we shall employ as many guards as may be necessary to enforce the quarantine. A quarantine is of no value unless it is thoroughly enforced. Whether there exists yellow fever in Louisville or not at present 1 feel very sure that without quarantine, if this hot v,-ea!h<=*r continues. they will, have it not only at Louisville. but at Indianapolis, not in epidemic form, of course, but enough to paralyze things.” lo ihe Louisville people yesterday he said that the board had not discussed the idea of establishing a quarantine and such a thing was not contemplated. Dr. Hurty did his best yesterday to set the minds of the Louisville people at rest, lie assured them that he had Information which led him to know that there was no yellow fever in Louisville. He said he had sent a physician there to make a complete investigation and on his report the State Board would act, but lie was satisfied in his own mind there was no yellow fever there and was positive that the board would go no further than to establish a system of inspection. “The word quarantine was not mentioned in the board's talk of the situa-

tion.’’ he said. “We rnerel> met ami studied the situation together. That is ail there was in it. gentlemen.” Before .he Louisville gentlemen arrived Dr. Hurty .• id to the Journal reporter that he was convinced that there v.ei e cases of yellow fever at Louisville. “They hide it from the world.” he said. “I do not doubt that, if an investigation should be made many cases of yellow fever won i be found in Louisville. The physiejans report it as dengue fever or sumethnig eist and the world is kept in ignorance. The fact is that a detective has already visited Louisville. as the agent of Chicago, and his report is to the effect that yellow fever prevails there. He was a man with a medical education and was able to get about and learn things which would not have come to light otherwise. It is the same situation us prevailed in Chicago three years ago during the epidemic of smallpox. Hundreds of cases were never reported to the health authorities and hundreds that A* ere r; ported were not published.’’ ■ Dr. Hurty said yesterday that there is really danger of the yellow fever reaching this State and that it could live and kin thousands in Indianapolis should it g< t hero. “The conditions are just right lor its spread,” he said. The inroper conditions are a temperature about 70. degrees Fahrenheit or above and a relative humidity of 7t> degrees. At 7 o'clock on the evening of Oct. 1 the temperature was 81.9 and the relative humidity was 62. This was not a good day for yellow fever, but the meteorological conditions have been right ever sinca Oct. 2 the temperature was 73 and the relative humidity 72: Oct. 3, temperature 71.f>. relative humidity 76; Oct. 4, temperature 72, relative humidity 72. “There could be no better conditions for the spread of the disease. We are not alarmed about it, but it is well to be on th® guard and ready to take any precautionary measures which may be necessary. A fight warm rain would make the conditions more alarming, but a hard rain, followed by cold, would settle the yellow fever in the North.” Governor Mount's View. Special to the IndianaiioHs Journal. MADISON, Ind., Oct. s.—Governor Mount, interviewed here to-night, stated Indiana would probably not quarantine against Kentucky, but simply place agents at St. Louts, Louisville and Cincinnati to prevent refugees from fever districts entering the State. The measures taken would be mild, in no wise interfering with commercial relations between Indiana and neighboring States. compulsorylchool law. Suggestion ns to How It May Re Made Effective ami Popular. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: In Sunday’s edition of the Journal I notice that Superintendent D. M. Geeting, in making his estimate of gains in the schools of the State on account of the compulsory educational law, states that NoblesviUe has an increase of three hundred. Mr. Geeting has been misinformed or is guessing at the results. Asa member of the School Board of this city let me speak from the records. The enrollment the first day of the school year 1897 was just seventy-four more than in 1896. This is no more than the natural increase in the population as shown by the enumeration last spring. The pupils entering school since the opening* three weeks ago, are no inure than at the same time last year. So the claim of an increase in school attendance cannot be attributed to the new law. The fact of the case is that Noblesville has very little use of the new law, as the record of attendance last year will show that not over 5 per cent, of the children between the ages of eight and fourteen were out of school. I am in favor of a compulsory law properly and wisely enforced. But there is a right way and a w r rong way of doing educational work, as well as any other kind of business. In the great efforts of the “promoters” of this new law to bolster up its merits and impose additional burdens upon the people the facts may be stretched a little. Additional taxes are demanded and a whole lot of jobs are to be held, and therefore it becomes necessary for those interested in these things to make a long pull and a pull all together for the new law. There is where the danger lies. The people and school.officials must ba on their guard and hedge the system around with proper and wise restrictions. The purposes and intent of the new law • are salutary and right, and, therefore, any abuse of its provisions should be frowned upon and cut off at the very beginning of its operation. In my opinion the truant officers could be dispensed with until after tha holidays. The law requires that children attend at least twelve weeks in the year, but it is optional with parents whether they go at the beginning or at the close of tha school year. However, if the law had fixed a certain time at which the law should ba operative, there is another phase of tha question worthy of consideration. The people of the State are usually law-abiding, and after the law' is fuiiy known by all there will be but little need of its rigid enforcement by truant officers. A kind and humane effort should first be made by the teachers and trustees. Trustees are paid their per diem for “putting in time,” and could easily devote some of that time to this matter. Having the enumeration and enrollment at hand, it would be an easy matter to find out who are not attending school and are affected by the law. A little effort on the part of the trustees, co-oper-ating with the teachers, would bring nearly all into the schools. The kindly offices ot teacher and trustee w'ill do the work better than the truant officer, who has the odor and bearing of the high sheriff or town marshal. If, after proper efforts are made by teachers and trustees, there are still some children out of school who refuse ta obey the law, then the township trustee or trustees of towns or city corporations should report the names to the county superintendent, and he can direct the truant officer to take charge of such cases. This plan, I believe, is the humane one, and the business can be done in a systematic, business manner. This thing of hiring a lot of truant officers and laming them loos©upon the public to “put in time” and feed upon the taxpayers is not the purpose of the law. We have too many time-servers now. The school machinery is cumbersome and expensive enough now without adding any more appendages to it. We have but one truant officer in Hamilton county, and it iooks like his services would not be needed half the time. How will those counties fare that have half a dozen such officers on their hands? The great trouble with all our legislation is that it creates more offices and adds to the taxes of the people. I desire to say again that I am in favor of compulsory education, but I believe the school machinery is already sufficient to carry out th® provisions of the law without so much extra expense. WILL H. CRAIG. Noblesville, Ind., Oct. 4.

Rival to Brooklyn. Kansas City Journal. Brooklyn is giving herself great airs over the possession of a man recently arrested for having six wives. Here is St. .Joseph, the News says, a measly little Western city that makes no pretensions to being a city of the first class, with a man in prison who has seven wives. We are not proud nor stuck over it, but simply wish to call attention to th© fact that again the young and vigorous West is ahead of the effete East. English Opinion. Philadelphia Press. Traveled Americans who know the character of London newspapers get a very severe pain in the neck when they read the anti-American “gush” that is cabled over hero daily as a sample of English public opinion, and which emanate:' solely from several wretched, little ha’penny newspapers with no standing whatever in th® English world. Davis's Amends. Springfield Republican. Richard Harding Davis extends the glad hand of reconciliation to his newspaper associates by entitling his forthcoming volume “From a Reporter’s Notebook.” Let no one again accuse him of being ashamed of having been a reporter. It Doesn't ‘“Happen.” Philadelphia Press. Rather than tell the truth. Democratic newspapers refer to our prosperity as "Republican luck.” They neglect to observe, though, that “Republican luck” invariably follows the election of a Republican President. Our Climate. Chicago Post. We ought to be indeed a tough race; plunged into fire and hammered by the sun one hour, and into the ice next. It Is no wonder the American countenance has a spare and condensed surface like beaten metal. The Impression. Kansas City Journal. As to purchasing Greenland, the prevalent impression Is that our ice bills are big enough already. Xo Longer Paris Green. Chicago Times-Herald. If European advices are trustworthy. Oom Jack Gowdy is no longer Paris “greea.”